Interviews
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Indie Animated Delight: 2014 French Feature Mune: Guardian of the Moon Opens For One Day in U.S. Theaters
Experimentation involves risk, a factor that doesn’t figure into the equation of the increasingly homogeneous list of studio films—both live action and... -
I’ve Got the Music in Me: Amanda Lipitz Drew From Her Broadway Experience to Structure Heartwarming Doc Step
Broadway producer Amanda Lipitz had been making shorts about first-generation college students and girls’ education for years when the perfect opportunity for... -
Pleasure and Pain in Guanajuato: Amat Escalante’s The Untamed is an Unusual Sort of Creature Feature
Three years ago, acclaimed Mexican director Amat Escalante and I sat down over coffee in Downtown Los Angeles to discuss the political... -
Threads of Melancholy: In Ensemble Piece Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa Proves a Tonal Prowess
With his new ensemble comedy, Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa seems poised to break through to a wider cultural consciousness outside... -
Bear Hug: Brigsby Bear, From Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney, is an Unabashed Love Letter to Filmmaking With Friends
I had a feeling I’d like Brigsby Bear. As a comedy fan, how could I not? I’ve been a fan of director... -
Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88
Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, the revered visionary, artistic shaman and extreme multi-hyphenate Alejandro Jodorowsky chose to step away... -
Brothers Grimm in Watercolor, Breathing: Sébastien Laudenbach on Animating The Girl Without Hands
French animator Sébastien Laudenbach’s ethereal first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title,... -
Nailing the Low-Budget English Period Piece: Director William Oldroyd on His Startling Debut, Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is a thriller masquerading as a period piece, and first-time feature director William Oldroyd has reinvented the genre by injecting... -
Luc Besson’s Technology Allergy, Squid Superpowers and a Really Complicated Market: Inside Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a longtime passion project of French director-writer Luc Besson, known for his imaginative... -
Lipstick Under My Burkha: Alankrita Shrivastava’s Celebration of Female Desire Survives a Ban, Opens in India
For the past decade, the independent film scene in India has been thriving—in particular, movies that pick at the ancient thorns of...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2